var inthisissue = '<p><a href="http://hbswk.hbs.edu/feeds/js/6921.html">Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness</a> (February 6, 2012) <p>When American companies move pieces of their operations overseas, they run the risk of moving the expertise, innovation, and new growth opportunities just out of their reach as well, explains HBS Professor <strong>Willy Shih</strong>, who served as president of Eastman Kodak\'s digital imaging business for several years.</p><br/></p><p><a href="http://hbswk.hbs.edu/feeds/js/6930.html">Open Innovation and Organizational Boundaries: The Impact of Task Decomposition and Knowledge Distribution on the Locus of Innovation</a> (February 3, 2012) <div>by <b>Karim R. Lakhani and Michael L. Tushman</b></div><p>Open innovation, enabled by low-cost communication and the decreased costs of memory and computation, has transformed markets and social relations. In contrast to firm-centered innovation, open innovation is radically decentralized, peer based, and includes intrinsic and pro-social motives. In this paper the authors use in-depth examples from Apple, NASA, and Lego to argue that in contexts of increasing modularity and decreased communication costs, open innovation will at least complement, if not increasingly substitute for, more traditional innovation modes. For this reason emerging theories of innovation, organizational design, and leadership for innovation must be informed by these contrasting innovation modes and the implications for governance, incentives, intellectual property, managerial choice, professional and organizational identity, and organizational cultures.</p><br/></p><p><a href="http://hbswk.hbs.edu/feeds/js/6791.html">Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors\' Prison</a> (February 2, 2012) <p>Forget the notion of the home as "castle." Twenty-two percent of Americans owe more on their mortgages than the value of their homes. <strong>Nicolas P. Retsinas</strong> offers ideas for how these "debtors\' prisons" can be turned into productive housing.</p><br/></p><p><a href="http://hbswk.hbs.edu/feeds/js/6907.html">Is Support for Small Business Misplaced&#63;</a> (February 1, 2012) <p><strong>Forum Open</strong> Is support for small business overhyped as a panacea for our economic troubles? Recent research suggests the advantages of bigness when it comes to employment and economic development.  If so, asks Professor <strong>Jim Heskett</strong>, what does this mean for government policy?</p></p><br/></p><p><a href="http://hbswk.hbs.edu/feeds/js/6942.html">First Look: Jan. 31</a> (January 31, 2012) <p>The name game &hellip; Incentives to save &hellip; Squelching motivation</p><br/></p>';